Marius Burokas, born in 1977, is a poet, freelance writer, translator and editor-in-chief of an online magazine of Lithuanian literature the Vilnius Review. He is the author of three books of poetry, the most recent of which I‘ve Learned Not To Be was published in 2011. His poetry has been translated into Polish, Russian, Slovenian, English, German, French, Ukrainian and other languages. Marius has translated poetry of many international poets including Charles Simic, Walter S. Merwin, William Carlos Williams, Charles Bukowski, Ted Hughes and Alan Ginsberg.